eWire: Arlington

Arlington, Massachusetts -- a town not far outside of Boston -- used to be a pretty decent place to ride flatland. It's central location made it easy for Eastern Mass flatlanders to get to, and it's mostly-unused bus depot parking lot was a good place to ride undisturbed.

Kurt von Stetten
...on a new bike & front-wheel linking once again.

Brian Chapman
...upside-down megaspin. But all good things must come to an end...well, not really an end, since we often still ride there. The parking lot has become a place for moving vans to park, leaving it oil-stained and dirty. The building next door is being torn down, adding to the dirt, dust and debris that litters the ground.

Keith McElhinney
...gliding two-footed -- at speed, of course. As rider (and Arlington resident) Sean Maher put it: "This town is going downhill...fast." But until we come up with a better place to ride, it'll do.

Jim Cavanaugh
...spastic tomahawk from a cross-handed steamroller (with chest hair).

Plus there are more people traffic. Most of it is from the nearby bike path: mountain bikes and rollerbladers are a common sight. But there are also an increasing amount of insane people: weirdos walking by muttering to themselves, smashing glass bottles as they pass; dirty little kids wreaking havoc on the moving vans; and strange people spending a lot of time picking berries from nearby bushes.

Uploaded August 1997.


Arlington, Massachusetts -- a town not far outside of Boston -- used to be a pretty decent place to ride flatland. It's central location made it easy for Eastern Mass flatlanders to get to, and it's mostly-unused bus depot parking lot was a good place to ride undisturbed.				...on a new bike & front-wheel linking once again.
...upside-down megaspin.	But all good things must come to an end...well, not really an end, since we often still ride there. The parking lot has become a place for moving vans to park, leaving it oil-stained and dirty. The building next door is being torn down, adding to the dirt, dust and debris that litters the ground.				...gliding two-footed -- at speed, of course.	As rider (and Arlington resident) Sean Maher put it: "This town is going downhill...fast." But until we come up with a better place to ride, it'll do.
		...spastic tomahawk from a cross-handed steamroller (with chest hair).
			Plus there are more people traffic. Most of it is from the nearby bike path: mountain bikes and rollerbladers are a common sight. But there are also an increasing amount of insane people: weirdos walking by muttering to themselves, smashing glass bottles as they pass; dirty little kids wreaking havoc on the moving vans; and strange people spending a lot of time picking berries from nearby bushes.			Uploaded August 1997.